Herramientas para la dirección actoral infantil aplicado al cortometraje Pintando el Alma

Abstract

The research as finalized aims to establish support tools in the direction of child actors, in this it is expected to correlate fundamentals of: “technique and exercises of the imagination” of the American actress and profesor of interpretation, Stella Adler in the book compiled by Howard Kissel: The Art of Acting (2000), with the book of the American educator Linda Lantieri titled: child and adolescent emotional intelligence. Exercises to cultivate the inner strength in children and youth (2009) in its section “Exercises to relax the body and focus the mind for children ages 8 to 11 years”; through this there will be analyzation of direction and performance of children’s characters in movies like: Please Don’t Hit Me Mon (Arner, 1981); Voces Inteligentes (Mandoki, 2005) and El Chacón Maravilla (Luzuriaga, 1982). Finally, the methodology of “investigation/creation” will be used (Hernandez Hernandez, 2006, p. 13, 19 y 29; Carreño, 2014) which is based on the theory of cinematography and the artistic experience, with views on practical application. The result will be evident in the making of the short film Pintando el Alma (painting the soul) and it will be shown how said support tools proposed for the direction of child actors worked and how the the fruit of this research will help upcoming audiovisual productions.